Calling all Alter Bridge fans. This is, in many ways, a first attempt at a one-layer Photoshop painting. Myles Kennedy, the lead singer of Alter Bridge, was my subject. I restricted myself to only one layer, aside from the importing…

So every design site has a few lists. So, in order to make sure I contribute to this zany trend I’ll go ahead and provide a list of my own. I could probably list 30 CSS sites that I visit…

Where do I start. I guess I’ll start with the new GUI. It is fabulous. Gone are the floating palettes and accidentally clicking through to the desktop. That was probably one of my greatest frustrations in my PC-to-Mac switch some…

It’s here! They’re claiming its the shortcut to brilliant and you can now fork over your hard earned money to get the new version. In their words, “Brilliant is rarely born. Far more often, it is made. And even then,…

Let’s face it. Swooping camera movements in After Effects can be a real pain if you are just using the camera itself. It is nearly impossible to get the point of interest and the camera to move in such a…

What’s better than one mouse button? No mouse buttons! Apple’s notorious refusal to add a “right-click” button to their mice has taken a turn in the opposite direction. The new MacBook Pro will, among other things, have a button-less glass…

This is just a little helpful nugget for all your WordPress fanatics out there. Assuming you’re using, or have copied over, the code from the default theme, you’ll probably notice the words “Blog Archive” as the title of your page.…

There are times when you just want to whip out some simple 3D text for an animation or print ad. Nothing too fancy, but definitely more advanced that Illustrator’s 3D can handle. It probably doesn’t take a crazy big application…

I got an email from a reader asking how to rename your layers in After Effects. It brought back bad memories of clicking around forever trying to figure this out. It seems to be one of those things that is…

Lots of things have changed in the migration from AS2 to AS3. One of which is the stage and how it is accessed. First, you need to understand that there is only one stage. Therefore, in the example I am going…